• Kalkaline
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    11 months ago

    Authoritarians get their power from people who stand on the sidelines. Maybe you aren’t standing on the sidelines, but the constant deluge of worse and worse news is part of the strategy to burn you out and stay home when the election/revolution (depending on how things are going) starts.

    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      That’s quite a leap. There’s a difference between checking out and understanding that Trump has nothing interesting to say.